Candidates for Student Assembly president and vice president faced off in a final debate in which candidates were allowed to question one another on Sunday night in Collis Cafe. Elections will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. More »
Pledging to continue to work with its national organization to seek re-recognition at the College, members of the Dartmouth Beta Theta Pi Board of Trustees met with a group of predominantly male students in the Rockefeller Center Sunday evening. The event, billed as an informational session, also appeared to recruit new students as Board members, collecting contact and biographical information ahead of the Fall term rush process. More »
The research culture of the modern university has kept important questions — such as those surrounding the meaning of life — from being discussed in the classroom, Yale Law professor Anthony Kronman argued to an audience primarily composed of Dartmouth faculty members on Friday. Kronman’s speech was the first ever in the Daniel Webster Program’s Janus Lecture Series. More »
Veteran waitress Becky Schneider has worked at Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery in Hanover for 21 years. She has left the restaurant three times since 1978, often recruited for new positions by one of her loyal customers — pursuing new work at a plasma-torch consumable company, working at Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse in West Lebanon, and drifting off to Florida in her early twenties. More »
Aporia, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, held its first undergraduate philosophy conference this weekend. Despite its relatively recent relaunch in 2006, Aporia attracted dozens of student presenters from around the country to discuss their work. More »
The College’s Economic Equity Initiative invited class-equality activist Felice Yeskel to work with faculty and administrators to understand the implications of classism, a largely unrecognized prejudice, according to Yeskel. Yeskel held several meetings and workshops that examined classism at Dartmouth and explored the culture-shock many face upon entering college. More »
God exists and modern science can prove it, Jacob Zvi Brudoley argued in a speech hosted by Dartmouth’s Chabad on Friday. Even as his thick New York accent and animated mannerisms held the audience’s attention, his controversial statements — such as his claim that anyone who disagrees with him simply cannot handle the truth — often drew incredulous looks from the audience. More »
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